Textural, savoury grüner veltliner with orange zest, tree fruit, peach, nectarine, wild flowers, spice and pepper flavours. Deliciously fragrant and mouth-wateringly crisp with a lingering finish.
BOB CAMPBELL, MASTER OF WINE - 93 POINTS
Jules Taylor Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2020
This 20th anniversary release Grüner has a distinctive almost powerful perfume of white spice then fresh white fleshed fruits, pineapple and citrus, no mistaking the herb and tropical fruit combination. On the palate - crisp, fresh, youthful, plenty of texture and a core of fruit. A back bone of acidity and fresh fruit flavours that reflect the nose. White spice and herb notes finishing with a sweet radish note. Well made and ready to enjoy from today and through 2024+.
CAMERON DOUGLAS, MASTER SOMMELIER - 91 POINTS
Jules Taylor Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2020
This is fabulously fruited and beautifully composed, showing apricot, fig, floral and lemon pith characters with a hint of white pepper on the nose. The palate displays excellent focus and flow together with rounded mouthfeel and juicy fruit flavours, leading to a lengthy vibrant finish. At its best: now to 2024.
SAM KIM, WINE ORBIT - 4.5 STARS | 91 POINTS
Jules Taylor Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2020
Pale colour, with a very intense, fragrant new-wine aroma: yeasty, talcy and floral-scented. The wine is delicate and crisp, bright and firm with a tickle of sweetness then a dry and slightly phenolic finish, ever so slightly bitter, so that it cries out for food accompaniment.
HUON HOOKE - 92 POINTS
Jules Taylor Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2020
If your experiences with grüner veltliner have come tied to more than a decent splash of sweetness, then this little van-load of vavoom with it’s partial wild ferment will be a fabulous face slap of delicious dryness. With mountains of minerality, richness and generosity of texture, the soft apple, spring florals, walnut and nashi notes catapult this wine into a seriously delicious place.
YVONNE LORKIN WINE REVIEWS
Jules Taylor Marlborough Grüner Veltliner 2020
The rise of Austria’s great gift to the world of wine, gruner veltliner, continues, this time in Marlborough. Marlborough is on the cool side for this variety and it shows in this wine which is a very crisp example of gruner. It is pale in colour and shows layers of exotic fruits – feigoa, guava and citrus fruits that are clean and pure. This then leads to an acid driven palate with bright fruits and also some textural creaminess, which this variety is well known for, before finishing quite long with a distinct peppery edge. This is a gruner that is crying out for salt and pepper whitebait.
91 POINTS - ANGUS HUGHSON - WINE PILOT
GIVE GRÜNER A GO.
Jules explains what Grüner Veltliner (or "that other white wine") is all about.
Grüner Veltliner is a cool climate wine originally from Austria. Jules describes it as "the illegitimate lovechild of Pinot Gris and Riesling!" One of the reasons that we’re making it is to stretch our wings, to see if there is life after Sauvignon Blanc. The initial results suggest that there might be.
AROMA & FLAVOUR
Crisp green apple, ginger and ripe
peach combine on the nose with just a
hint of citrus, honey and white pepper. The palate boasts delicious flavours
of rock melon and peach, mandarin
and lemon zest. There is also a hint of
Grüner’s signature white pepper flavour.
This is a fine, concentrated wine with
a lovely textural element from the
wild fermented portion alongside crisp
acidity and a long, refreshing finish.
VINTAGE NOTES
The 2021 season got off to a cracking start with a warm spring causing an early bud burst
and flowering. However frost on 30th
September followed by unsettled weather during flowering severely reduced the
number of grapes. From Christmas onwards, conditions reverted to sunny, dry weather causing the grass to turn from spring green to golden
brown. The grapes started to race towards harvest, but the prolonged dry spell
limited any berry growth, so at harvest we had very clean small berries but also
some of the lowest harvest bunch weights since 2007. Our Marlborough harvest
began on the 4th of March, nine days earlier than 2020 and certainly one of the
earliest harvests in Marlborough. The Grüner Veltliner was the fruit to be picked
this year and was delivered into the winery with a comedy flourish on April Fool’s
Day. Without exception, all fruit this year was disease-free and had great flavour
concentration. We just wish there were more to go round!
VINIFICATION
This year our Grüner Veltliner grapes were 100% hand-harvested from a single,
small vineyard in the Wairau sub-region of Marlborough. The fruit was whole bunch
pressed and the free run juice was cold settled over 48 hours and then fermented
cool and slow in a stainless steel tank to retain the vibrant aromatics. This approach
contrasted with the handling of a second portion which was pressed directly into old
French oak for a wild ferment followed by a full malolactic fermentation. Soon after
fermentation the two components were blended together before being bottled and
sealed with a screw cap to retain perfect freshness.
HERE'S ONE FOR ADVENTUROUS DRINKERS ON A BUDGET - A NEW ZEALAND TAKE ON AUSTRIA' FAVOURITE WHITE GRAPE VARIETY.
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